Introduction: the enigma of socialism / Thomas Muhr -- Politics, principles, processes -- Twenty-first century socialism : a political and pedagogical act : some keys to understanding / Eduardo Leal Chacón -- Counter-globalisation and a revolutionary politics of place and space : the transnational construction of the ALBA -- TCP in Nicaragua, El Salvador and the United States of America / Thomas Muhr -- The ALBA -- TCP council of social movements : a double-turn in counter-hegemony / Jennifer Martinez -- Rethinking Legitimacy in international law : the ALBA -- TCP's place for justice / Mohsen Al Attar & Edward Miller Part II: Political Economy -- Cuban socialism : inspiration to the ALBA -- TCP / Helen Yaffe -- The new strategic regionalism in the ALBA -- TCP : alternatives to the food and energy crises / Maribel Aponte-García -- The SUCRE and the ALBA -- TCP monetary union : responses from the South to the global crisis / Antulio Rosales and Manuel Cerezal -- Culture, education, the environment -- Cultural policy and 21st century socialism / Hazel Marsh -- Post-secularity and political hope in 21st century socialism / Lucia Michelutti -- The politics of the audiovisual cultural revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean / Libia Villazana -- From the local to the regional and back : Bolivia's politics of decolonizing education in the context of the ALBA -- TCP / Mieke Lopes Cardozo and Jesse Strauss -- Global struggles for climate justice and the ALBA -- TCP council of social movements : an activist perspective / Alice Cutler and Yasmine Brien.